The Takelma language of Southwestern Oregon. Extract from Handbook of American Indian Languages (Bulletin 40), part 2, of Bureau of American Ethnology (Boas)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. 8vo in sheets, pp. [2], 296; vignette title page; laid into original gray printed wrappers; middle of wrapper spine chipped, else near fine. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with release stamp on inner wrapper. Sapir was a pioneer on the relationship between anthropology and linguistics, and played an important role in the development of the concept of the phoneme. He was also one of the first linguists to break away from the notion that Native American languages were too rudimentary for historical linguistics, and was able to classify a number of language families as a result. His study of the Takelma language, of which there are only a few dozen speakers still living, is one of the few works on the subject. Item #49690
Price: $60.00
